{"id":927,"date":"2009-05-28T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T06:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=927"},"modified":"2009-05-28T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T06:18:45","slug":"still-computerless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Still computerless"},"content":{"rendered":"

My computer is still off being repaired. While this makes blogging, cruising Ravelry and twittering more difficult than usual, it’s done wonders for the sewing and the knitting!
\nI’m using Emily’s computer when she isn’t, but it’s not the same as my own, and it’s making downloading pictures and stuff a pain. But I do have some!
\nI finished the Rivendell socks, much to Emily’s delight. (I’m still peeved that they’re too small for my cankles!)
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\nI love the finished look of these socks, but I wasn’t impressed with the pattern, or the yarn.
\nSpecs:
\nPattern: Rivendell<\/a> by Janel Laidman
\nYarn: Sundara Sock Yarn<\/a> in “Pink Dreams”
\nNeedles: 2mm
\nMods: I rewrote the heel turn, because the one in the pattern just didn’t work for me. I also rounded the toe a little more than the pattern called for.
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\nBy the way, the actual colour is pinker than it appears here, at least on Emily’s monitor. I couldn’t get it right on this computer!
\nAs I just mentioned, the heel as written just didn’t work. I looked on Ravelry, and maybe it was just me, because I couldn’t find any errata, or any comments or posts about the heel! The yarn? I can’t understand the fuss, to be honest. The red dots through it aggravated me. And you can’t see it in these pictures, but there is a great big red spot right in the centre of the top of the foot on one of the socks. And there was a placein the yarn that was almost split through. It was nice enough to knit with, but it wasn’t the fantabulous stuff I’d thought it must be.
\nBut again, maybe that’s just me!
\nI got to pick a new sock club shipment.
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\nMountain Colors Bearfoot in “Wildflower”. I’m going to use this to make CookieA’s BFF socks<\/a>.
\nSelbu Modern has also seen some action.
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\nI’m still uncertain about the colour combination, but Em still loves it, and she’s the one who will be wearing it. At least she does seem to wear the handknit hats, even if she doesn’t wear anything else I make her!
\nIn sewing news, I’m in the middle of sequinning something else she will wear.
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\nIt’s for her new fast tap routine, and I need to cover all the gold lycra with sequins. It’s happening, slowly.
\nAnd when you walk around here, you need to watch where you’re walking.
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\nYou may trip over half a bunny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My computer is still off being repaired. While this makes blogging, cruising Ravelry and twittering more difficult than usual, it’s done wonders for the sewing and the knitting! I’m using Emily’s computer when she isn’t, but it’s not the same as my own, and it’s making downloading pictures and stuff a pain. But I do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}